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ROMEO HERONDALE (1307 – 1365)

Outgoing • Romantic • Goofy

— status: deceased (stroke, 1365) — house: Herondale — born: only son and heir of Tomas Herondale and Rebekah

Tomas Herondale (father, deceased) Rebekah Herondale (mother, deceased)

Maeve (sister, deceased) Anika (sister, deceased) Tobias (half-brother, deceased) Eleanora (half-sister, deceased)

Claire Herondale (wife)

children: — Celestria — Cassian — Finnian (deceased) — Luke (deceased) — Rowan — Rhiannon (deceased)

adopted: — Diana

life in brief

Romeo was born when his mother was slipping away. The childbirth was terrible and he grew up never knowing his mother whom he looked so much like.

As a child he shared a close intellectual bond with Anika, the two often reading together or playing chess through the winter months. His father Tomas remained strict with him but was normally too occupied running a house and taking care of three young children.

Romeo was only ten years old when Tomas died during the famine, Romeo unwillingly became head of household far earlier than expected. Lucrezia and Anika helped guide him through the transition and later involved him heavily in choosing a future bride.

At fourteen Romeo met Claire Baker and quickly became devoted to her. Their marriage a few years later in 1324 proved genuinely affectionate and stable, with Claire becoming his closest confidant throughout adulthood.

Two years later twins Celestria and Cassian were born. Romeo became increasingly involved in fatherhood as the children aged, especially due to his own experiences with loosing his parents so young.

Despite subsequent tragedies through the deaths of infant sons Finnian and Luke, Romeo worked tirelessly to keep the extended Herondale family closely connected through chapel visits, dinners, and shared celebrations.

Romeo later served five years at war alongside his half-brother Tobias before returning home safely. Determined to secure his children’s futures before conflict could return, he and Claire arranged marriages for both Celestria and Cassian shortly thereafter.

The Black Death shattered much of the household. Romeo survived while losing his elder sister Anika, daughter Rhiannon, grandson Luc, Ophelia, brother Tobias and his family; Blair, and Samuel, within an incredibly short span of time. He and Claire later adopted Diana, raising the young girl as their own daughter.

In his final years Romeo focused heavily on his family, raising Rowan and Diana, arranging marriages for his two sons while being a faithful husband and adoring grandfather.

WATTERS → HERONDALE BRANCH

— origin: Blair Sterling (Watters by marriage) becomes widowed into House Watters after Emmanuel’s death, her mother in law Rony forms a second union with Tobias Herondale, her nephew by her brother Tomas.

TOBIAS HERONDALE (1320 – 1348) Unflirty • Loyal • Insider

• Born prematurely shortly after the death of his father Tomas,

• Deeply attached to his mother Lucrezia throughout childhood, often clinging to her and struggling with separation. Following Eleanora’s death, his older siblings became especially protective and indulgent toward him.

• Known as a difficult but lovable child — stubborn, fussy with food, emotional, and intense

• Raised spending much of his youth alongside Anika in the gardens and around the farm animals.

• Shared a particularly close bond with his cousin Emmanuel Watters during childhood.

• Became deeply attached to Claire after her marriage to Romeo, especially through horseback riding and caring for Willow during Claire’s pregnancies.

• Following Emmanuel’s death, Tobias was arranged to marry Blair Watters. Eventually the marriage settled into genuine affection beneath the bickering.

• Went to war while Blair was pregnant with their first son Samuel and returned scarred but alive, later welcoming daughter Diana as well.

• Died during the plague of 1348.

BLAIR HERONDALE (neé STERLING, formerly WATTERS) (1317 – 1348) Hot Headed • Romantic • Family Oriented

Only daughter, married young into House Watters through Emmanuel. The marriage is brief and largely detached, ending with Emmanuel’s death after a duel wound. Blair remains within the Watters household under Romy’s love and protection, forming unexpected bonds with both Ivy and Sage.

Later, after pressure toward a second arranged match, she elopes with Tobias Herondale. Their relationship begins in irritation and resistance, shaped by lack of choice and mutual frustration but eventually the two settle down. She relocates to a small farm with Tobias, later inheriting the Watters meager holdings after Romy’s death through her deceased husband.

She gave birth to a son, Samuel during her husbands absence and then a daughter Diana once he had returned home and they had settled again as a family.

Dies during the Black Death in 1348.

SAMUEL HERONDALE (1338 – 1348) Firstborn son of Blair and Tobias, raised primarily by Blaire and his aunt Romy while Tobias is away at war. Initially hesitant toward his father upon return, but gradually bonds during Tobias’s final years at home. Dies during the Black Death alongside most of his immediate family.

DIANA HERONDALE (1343 – ?) Gloomy • Lovebug • Squeamish Youngest child of Blair and Tobias, later orphaned by the Black Death. Adopted by Romeo and Claire after the decimation of her household. Though she retains faint memories of her biological family, she is primarily shaped by her adoptive Herondale upbringing.

Quiet, observant, and prone to overthinking, Diana finds herself in structure and storytelling rather than domestic work. She bonds strongly with Claire (responsibility, routine), Romeo (reading, storytelling), and later develops friendships with other Herondale cousins, including Celestria and Mila.

She becomes especially fixated on books and astronomy after receiving a telescope at age ten, developing a fascination with the stars and night sky.